I think I'm hooked on this one for life...
If I don't get my fix on a regular basis I turn into a total vegetable. Every time I try to go cold turkey I experience horrible withdrawal symptoms, I feel lightheaded, turn funny colours and my vision starts to white out, I hear this echoing ringing in my ears and finally I can't take it anymore and I just give in.

Most of the time I don't even think about it, it's reflexive, it's just part of my life - sometimes, though, I realise what I'm doing and I try to at least pay attention to my habit, try to regulate it a bit more, but that takes all of my concentration and I can't do anything else. I suppose I'm better off than people with other addictions - long as I don't try to quit, it doesn't really have any adverse effects, although my supply isn't very pure and sometimes I start to cough... I do worry that those impurities are shortening my lifespan, but getting rid of them is practically impossible. I suppose I could break into a hospital and steal some of the pure stuff, but never enough to keep me going for any decent amount of time, so it wouldn't really be worth the risk of prosecution. Even the fact that I had that thought makes me worried that I'm going to turn to a life of crime to support my habit! It's got to stop!

But how can I quit when it is literally all around me? I blame the suppliers - those bastards just keep pumping the stuff out.

And that's why I am strongly in favour of logging and deforestation.
(Lieutenant Colonel Oblivious brought to you by intravenous sugar, Sat 20 Dec 2008, 12:46, 1 reply)

Have you tried helium?
I hear it's a good substitute. Great side effects too.
(Schrodinger's Goldfish, Mon 22 Dec 2008, 16:42, closed)